BMT Nurse Practitioner
Department of Hematological Oncology
Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Roswell Park Cancer Insitute

Pamela Paplham joined Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) in 1992 as a Nurse Practitioner  for the Blood and Marrow Transplant Unit.  Ms. Paplham came to RPCI from Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, where she worked in the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit. 

Ms. Paplham earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing in 1987 from Alfred University, NY, and her Master of Science degree in Nursing in 1992, from the University at Rochester, NY.  She is ANCC certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner and NY state certified as an Oncology Nurse Practitioner.

Her research interests include graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), and long-term complications of BMT.  Ms. Paplham is a member of the American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation. 

Ms. Paplham has authored or co-authored several publications and a book chapter.

Publications

Elefante A, Muindi J, West K, Dunford L, Abel S, Paplham P, Brown K, Hahn T, Padmanabhan S, Battiwalla M, McCarthy PL. Long term stability of a patient-convenient one mg/mL suspension of tacrolimus for accurate maintenance of stable therapeutic levels. Bone Marrow Transplant (2006 in press).

Iyer RV, Hahn T, Roy HN, Battiwalla M, Cooper M, Anderson B, Paplham P, Brown K, Bambach B, Segal BH, McCarthy PL. Long term use of oral beclomethasone dipropionate for the treatment of gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 11:587-592, 2005.

Chanan-Khan AA, Islam T, Alam A, Miller KC, Gibbs J, Barcos M, Czuczman MS, Paplham P, Hahn T, McCarthy PL. Long-term survival with allogeneic stem cell transplant following salvage therapy with anti-CD52 monoclonal antibody (Campath®) in a patient with α/ßhepatosplenic T-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Leuk Lymphoma 45 (8):1673-1675, 2004.

 

Younis TH, Alam A, Paplham P, Spangenthal E, McCarthy PL. Reversible pulmonary hypertension and thalidamide therapy for multiple myeloma. Br J Haematol  121: 191-192, 2003.  Erratum in: Br J Haematol  123: 563, 2003.

 

 

Brosious-Henson E, Abbey MJ, Fritz PD, Guzik A.  NP of the Year: profiles in practice innovation.  NP News  4(3): 1,4, 1996.

    

Oberkircher AR, Strout MP, Herzig GP, Fritz PD, Caligiuri MA. Description of an efficient and highly informative method for the evaluation of hematopoietic chimerism following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.  Bone Marrow Transplantation  16(5): 695-702, 1995. 

 

Book Chapters

Paplham, P.  "Post procedure care of venous access devices".  Central Venous Access.  Editor Charles Ray, Jr. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001.